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Department:	Social Sciences	Module Code:	COMM72002
Level:	Level 7	Contact Hours:	36
Duration:	1 Semester	Directed Study Hours:	24
Effective Term:	2013/14	Indep. Study Hours:	180
Credits:	12

Prerequisite Knowledge:

Professional Development Portfolio 1 (COMM 62000)

Module Description/Aims:

To facilitate the student's development as a critically reflective practitioner, achieved via their application of theoretical knowledge in the deconstruction of their practice. The module will also enable the students to develop an understanding of contemporary Critical Incident (Emergency) Planning.

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Contact Type	Hours
Lecture	2 Per Week
Tutorial	1 Per Week

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On successful completion of the module, the learner will be able to:

No.	Description/Learning Outcomes
1	Examine the social, cultural, economic and political influences which impact upon meeting the developmental and educational needs of children.
2	Integrate theoretical links to practice, including cross-curricular learning.
3	Deconstruct learning achieved in practice using an ERA (experience, reflection and action) model of reflection.
4	Demonstrate an ability to organise ideas coherently in writing and apply appropriate academic and professional writing conventions.
5	Source, evaluate, summarise and reference information in accordance with academic and/or professional practice (critical thinking/reading).
6	Identify what constitutes a critical incident (both traditional and contemporary meanings) and understand the processes involved in the construction of Emergency Preparedness Plans.

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Learning Strategies
This module involves the development of competence in both theory and practice through critical reflection on the students' practice experiences.
The focus of the module will firstly be the presentation of the theory for critical reflection and, secondly, for Critical Incident (Emergency) Planning. The focus of the portfolios will be the application of theory in the deconstruction of a critical incident (traditional meaning).

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Content

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Introduction to Critical Reflection

• Reviewing and consolidating models of reflection e.g. Kolb, Gibbs, Johns.
• Exploring what is meant by 'critical reflection': facilitating students in identifying, questioning, and challenging their own values and assumptions as part of critically reflective processes.
• An exploration of how power/power dynamics impact upon practice.
• The application of theoretical perspectives in the deconstruction of a placement experience (individual and group).
• The integration and linkage of cross-curricular learning and the curriculum guidelines for children under six (Aistear, Siolta, Aistear -Siolta Practice Guide) in critically reflective practice e.g. 'Signposts for Reflection' in Siolta.

Introduction to Critical Incident (Emergency) Planning

• Identifying the contemporary meaning of critical incidents.
• Identification of what constitutes an emergency situation.
• An exploration of the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in emergency planning and response.
• An examination of the preparation and development of Emergency Preparedness Plans by a Critical Incident Management Team (CIMT) and an identification of Critical Incident Procedures.

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Assessment Strategies
Critical Reflection and Critical Incident Planning will be assessed through 100% continuous assessment.

Indicative Assessments show detail >>

Learning Outcome	Assessment Category	Assessment Method	Additional Information	% alloc
1, 2, 3, 4, 5	Continuous Assessment	Portfolio	Assignment will focus on the topics considered in Introduction to Critical Reflection	50
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Continuous Assessment	Portfolio	Assignment will focus on the topics considered in Introduction to Critical Reflection and Introduction to Critical Incident (Emergency) Planning.	50

Reading List show detail >>

Type	ISBN	Title Author Publisher	Year	Edition	Library Link
Essential	0000000000	CIP, Critical Incident Plan: Toolkit for Childcare Providers Galway City and County Childcare Committee Galway CCC	2012		-
Essential	0748771174	Beginning Reflective Practice Melanie Jasper Nelson Thornes	2003		-
Essential	041532100X	Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying Poststructural Ideas Glenda MacNaughton Routledge	2005		-
Essential	0000000000	Responding to Critical Incidents, Guidelines for Schools National Educational Psychological Services (NEPS) Department of Education and Science	2007		-
Essential	0000000000	Siolta: The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education (CECDE) CECDE	2006		-
Essential	0000000000	Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) NCCA	2009		-
Essential	0000000000	Aistear-Siolta Practice Guide NCCA NCCA	2015		-
Recommended	0335242553	Developing Reflective Practice in the Early Years Alice Paige-Smith and Anna Craft Open University Press	2011	2nd	-
Recommended	0230573185	The Critically Reflective Practitioner Sue Thompson and Neil Thompson Palgrave Macmillan	2008		-

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Professional Development Portfolio 2